Wonder Quotes · Page 54

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

— Lewis Carroll

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

— Francis Bacon

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

— Aristotle

If diamonds are a girl's best friend, I wonder if blood diamonds are a girl's best friend 5 days out of the month?

— Chelsea Handler

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

— Scarlett Thomas

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.

— Anonymous

I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.

— Jeremy Irvine

I wish I knew my future, it would make things so much easier, Because then I wouldn't have to sit here and…

— Jessica Davis

And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be…

— Leo Tolstoy

I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating…

— Jack Kirby

You have cast out the wonder of creation - man and woman - and you have put money in its place. This…

— Pope Francis

If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder…

— A. E. Housman

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much…

— Orhan Pamuk

The moon is bleached as white as wool, And just dropping under; Every star is gone but three, And they hang far…

— Jean Ingelow

The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if…

— Susan Faludi

It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started…

— Polly Bergen

So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at…

— Lee Strobel

The word ‘holiday’ comes from ‘holy day’ and holy means ‘exalted and worthy of complete devotion.’ By that definition, all days are…

— Penn Jillette

We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none…

— Winston Churchill

I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're born…

— Haruki Murakami

But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking…

— Bill Bryson

No wonder if such persons look upon imputed righteousness as the shadow of a dream, who esteem those things which evidence its…

— John Owen

“It's shocking, isn't it, that a kiss could have led to something so big and violent and full of light as a…

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand before you now because I never stopped dawdling like an eight-year-old on a spring morning on his…

— Kurt Vonnegut

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

— Robert Henri

The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

— Elizabeth Goudge

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.

— David Mamet

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

— Anne Tyler

Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to…

— Jerzy Grotowski

Around the house my parents played a lot of R&B and soul; Stevie Wonder, Mary J. Blige and Kirk Franklin.

— Griff

Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.

— William T. Vollmann

“It's so beautiful where I am today that it makes me wonder where I am.”

— Steve Martin

If life gives you lemons, make apple juice and make people wonder how the hell you did it.

— Gurbaksh Chahal

I sometimes wonder if I would have become a writer if what happened to my father hadn't happened.

— Hisham Matar

Children ask questions much more than adults do, and you have to wonder if this is something we have that we lose.

— Mark Kurlansky

“One of the great solaces of my life is that I no longer need to wonder whether I’ll have children.”

— Sarah Manguso

I wonder what it feels like to be one of those pretty girls that all the guys want.

— Kezza Purdue

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

— Liv Ullmann

“Before you knew it, a wonder could mix with the plain old earth beneath your feet until you could no longer tell…

— Kimberly Brock